Can't use variable defined in if/else statement outside

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Hi there,
I have never really got the hang of scopes. I really hate it! Here I am inside an async function and I have an if/else statement where I define the variable ‘url’. But the code outside says that ‘url’ is undefined. WHY??? This is probably really simple, so if you could help me, I’d be sooooo grateful!
Code:

if(!validation){
    const searchterm = message.content.split("!play ")
    yts( searchterm[1], function ( err, r ) {
  if ( err ) throw err
 
  const videos = r.videos
var url = videos[0].url;
      console.log(url); //outputs the URL I want
} )
  }else{
    var url = args[1];
    console.log(url); //outputs the URL I want
  }
  console.log(url); //Outputs undefined

Hope you can help
Eddie

2

I tried doing

var url;

before any function and changing it to url = videos[0].url; but it didn’t change it

3

Fixed by just putting the code that need the variable in both the if and else statements - ugly, but it works